Githyanki
PHB, Monsters of the Multiverse
Githyanki
Once members of a people who escaped servitude to mind flayers, Githyanki split from their cousins, Githzerai, and fled to the Astral Plane. In that time-less, silvery realm, Githyanki honed their psionic powers and built a great city called Tu'narath.They have since spread throughout the multiverse, starting in outposts outside the Astral Plane, called Creshes, where time passes normally and their children can reach adulthood. A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens and browns, Githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by the mind flayers and cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all Githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live and die among the silver astral clouds. Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
Gith
The warlike Githyanki and the contemplative Githzerai are a sundered people - two cultures that utterly despise one another. Before there were Githyanki or Githzerai, these creatures were a single race enslaved by the mind flayers. Although they attempted to overthrow their masters many times, their rebellions were repeatedly crushed until a great leader named Gith arose. After much bloodshed, Gith and her followers threw off the yoke of their illithid masters, but another leader named Zerthimon emerged in the aftermath of the battle. Zerthimon challenged Gith's motives, claiming that her strict martial leadership and desire for vengeance amounted to little more than another form of slavery for her people. A rift errupted between followers of each leader, and they eventually became the two races whose emnity endures to this day. Whether these tall, guant creatures were peaceful or savage, cultured or primitive before the mind flayers enslaved them, none can now say. Not even the original name of their race remains from that distant time.
Githyanki Kith'Rak
Militarized Githyanki cultures assign ranks and responsibilities to citizens. Groups of ten Warriors follow the commands of Sarths, while ten Sarths obey the commands of a mighty Kith'rak. These champions undergo tortuous training and psionic testing until they can command the respect of their underlings.
Astral Knowledge.
You can mystically Access a reservoir of experiences of entities connected to the Astral Plane. Whenever you finish a long rest, you gain aprofiency in one skill of your choice and with one weapon or tool of your choice, selected from the Player's Handbook, as you momentarily project your consciosness into the Astral Plane. These proficiencies last until the end of your next long rest.
Githyanki Psionics.You know the Mage Hand cantrip and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the Jump spell with this trait. Starting at the 5th level, you can also cast the Misty Step spell with it. Once you cast Jump or Misty Step with this trait, you may not cast that spell again with it until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have that are of the appropriate level. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spell casting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait. (Choose when you select this Race.) None of these spells require spell components when you cast them with this trait.
Psychic Resilience.You have resistance to psychic damage.
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